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RE: An interesting collection of coincidences involving Daniel Larimer
Bullies will pick up on anything they can use against you. It can be tough for kids with certain names. I expect the author Neil Gaiman may have had some tough times as a kid.
I recently learned that the word fascism came from the Italian for a bundle of sticks (fasces](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces)).
Faggot can have another meaning in the UK. And 'pack of fags' may have a very different meaning according to where you live.
Words are fascinating
They are, and they often mean a lot more than you think. Even numbers, which are really also a type of word.
Fasces is more than just a bundle of sticks. The axe is also in the middle of the bundle, and it represents military authoritarian government.
In my opinion too much gets read into the meaning of numbers. The meaning is down to how people interpret them. And that changes over time. I remember when 'feeling gay' meant just being happy.
On a TV show they asked 'where is the fascist in the Oval Office?'. There's fasces over the doors, minus the axe.
You could be right in that point. It is a logical thing that when a woodsman goes out to chop a bunch of sticks, which can be of course including as much as 1-2" boughs, that bringing it back home, it would have to be tied up, to stick on the horse or to carry it. It would also make sense then, to bind the axe into it as well. Thus the meaning of a bundle of sticks over the door of the oval office is doubly suspect.
As for numbers, numbers have a meaning, which you can discover by reading about number theory and topology. Especially the most primitive numbers, the prime numbers. If you can consider each number a word, then the process of producing the non-prime numbers combines meanings same as stems, prefixes and suffixes do with words. Order of numbers in mathematical functions can be critical too, hence the grammar of order of precedence, which is a way to save drawing brackets around things to show the tree structure of the grammar.
The bundle of sticks symbolises strength through unity. It's an ancient idea and nicely depicted in a recent Planet of the Apes movie. How you interpret the image now is influenced by how it's been used.
At least mathematics is less ambiguous than words :) Wars have been fought over words.
The US Mercury Dime 1916-1945 obverse a fasces:
Deeper in the rabbit hole.
I knew about this one already. Also, what the fuck is up with the California flag. Communist much?
Star and russian bear? I wondered why they call it the left coast.
Yeah, and the density of SJWs getting triggered by dirty republicans! Blue State 4 Lyfe. Not only that, fuckin druggy as fuck. If you ask me, the entire population of california is so sick that within 50 years they are all going to be dead.
They won't last that long. They are way out of balance and think it normal.
I dunno about the author but in the mid '80s we could get little packs of lollies called Fags - fashioned after cigarettes. By the late '80s they were sold as Fads. And then they weren't sold at all. Imagine how the usual suspects will shit when cannabis edibles hit in this Big Brother buttfuck of a country...
I used to have sweet 'cigarettes' when I was a kid. We could pretend to smoke them. How things change.
I remember those things. nasty starch and sugar things laced with nasty fake flavours. Like those horrible star shaped extruded things. I remember many times eating a bunch and then feeling really wrong.
How ironic, that they are probably more toxic than cigarettes. The toxicity of a high carb diot, at least to my body, is becoming clearer and clearer every day, and then, walking around the supermarket, jesus christ. Nearly no food items are not high carbohydrate. Even smoked salmon and pork has frickin sugar or starch in its preparation.